Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [been] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these relationships may not have been partnerships in any of the senses that the word is used today . |
| 2 | There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others . |
| 3 | According to Mr Scannell , there always have been people in the UK interested in buying property in France ; some existing owners , including accountants , commute to work in the UK every week . |
| 4 | Exotic animals would probably have been rarities in the British arenae and even then used only for exhibition , as they would presumably have been too expensive to have suffered damage . |
| 5 | But there may well have been situations in which the boot was on the other foot ; and in the centuries before the tenth , the centuries in which slavery was steadily declining , there is no reason to suppose that land was scarce , or that the landlords normally had the whip-hand . |
| 6 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |
| 7 | ‘ The Northern Regional Health Authority are well aware there have been difficulties in this district . |
| 8 | In southern California , where only 6% of travel to work is by public transport , most users would otherwise have been passengers in cars , not drivers . |
| 9 | There never has been room in the consumer electronic marketplace for two directly competing , but incompatible , systems . |
| 10 | The main point which emerges from considering the historical evidence is that there certainly has been change in the amount and type of support offered , but that this can not be seen simply as a decline from a high to a low point . |
| 11 | Peter Chester informed the same Committee that ‘ there certainly have been changes in knowledge . |